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  1. Re:Grandma and the Internet on Online Social Security Statement In Limbo · · Score: 2

    These aren't for retired people, they're the (formerly) annual statements sent to workers listing their expected benefits based on previous FICA taxes paid.

  2. Re:Partial release rings alarm bells on Microsoft Releases Mobile Data Collection Source Code · · Score: 1

    The full source code should ring alarm bells, too. It runs on their phones, in their vans. You don't have access to the hardware to verify it's running the source code they provided (and only the source code they provided). You don't have access to their compilers to verify it's not inserting other code.

  3. Re:Ubuntu + VMWare Player on Ask Slashdot: Easiest Linux Distro For a Newbie · · Score: 1

    Correction: 3d20.

  4. Re:LiveCD on Ask Slashdot: Easiest Linux Distro For a Newbie · · Score: 1
    I prefer the gentoo live cd. Comes with a boot-strapped gcc and source code for linux, gnu/userland, x, gnome (and kde if that's your thing), libre office, etc.

    Having to compile a full OS before using it really shows people why FREE software is a fundamental human right.

  5. Re:I don't remember those 90s... on 7 Days In Email Hell · · Score: 1

    I don't recall any significant spam until my isp was bought up by earthlink in 2000 or so at which point that mailbox was nothing but spam.

  6. Re:Science loses again on Congress Dumps James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Barack "I intend to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011" Obama?

  7. Re:Dell? on Dell Sets Stage To Take On Apple's iCloud · · Score: 0

    Yeah, it's serious. Fuck, it's all over DellRumors.com and DellInsider.com. Even DellingFilebarr (the king of Engrish Dell blogs) is reporting it.

  8. Re:Microsoft Research on Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    in 1790, 14 years probably was the rest of your life.

  9. Re:One very good point and a lot of bitching on Developer Calls Amazon Appstore a 'Disaster' · · Score: 2

    It's pretty well known that Amazon has terrible pricing terms -- 20% of the list price (that you set but must be lower than the price on any other app store) or 70% of the retail price that they set however they want. You have no control over the price.

  10. Re:Non-free binary-only libraries on Why Are There So Few Honeycomb Apps? · · Score: 1

    Not an issue if you only use FREE software.

  11. Re:Buzzing on Google's Six-Front War · · Score: 1

    don't forget orkut.

  12. Re:Is XCode included in the download? on Apple Ships OS X 10.7 Lion 'Gold Master' For July Push · · Score: 1

    Quicktime X is something which may currently be a step back but has better internals and will be better in the future .

  13. Re:Is XCode included in the download? on Apple Ships OS X 10.7 Lion 'Gold Master' For July Push · · Score: 1

    Starting with OS X, Apple has been willing to throw away the past and replace it with something which may currently be a step back but has better internals and will be better in the future -- OS X, QuickTime X, Xcode 4, FCP X, clang, etc. (About time they do that with iTunes...).

  14. Re:Looks like they have some catching up to do. on China Grows Its Own Twitter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What happened when you heard about the Kent State shootings?

  15. Re:Gone in 10 years. on RIM Responds To an Employee's Open Letter · · Score: 1

    RuPaul has a bigger pecker than Kim Kardashian, but that's not a feature I'm looking for when I want a woman to shit on my chest.

  16. Re:ICQ on BitTorrent Chat Demystified · · Score: 2

    Or they proved that you suffer from hallucinations.

  17. Re:This Will Help on Another Android Device Maker Signs Patent Agreement With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    One of the lodsys lawsuits involves an android app.

  18. Re:What do you love? on Google Launches Google+ Social Network · · Score: 2
    Access vagina stuff on the web, faster with Chrome

    Great Tip!

  19. "Apple's Vista" on Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years? · · Score: 1

    A lot of people (and businesses) looked at Vista and stayed on Windows XP. Eventually, Windows 7 came out, fixing some of the problems (also, hardware was better and had more memory...).

    Likewise, if FCPX won't work, you can still use FCP 7 until Apple adds back the missing features.

    Still it seems like they should continue selling and supporting FCP 7 for a while or have called it Final Cut X Express so they could get the feedback without the complaints.

  20. Re:Bozos on Long Now Clock Advances With Bezos Cash · · Score: 1

    But the copyright on the things he sells may last forever.

  21. Re:Our healthcare is f*cked. on Two More Google Software Dogs Go To Heaven · · Score: 0

    Maybe if you didn't go to Costa Rica for sex with shemale prostitutes, you wouldn't have needed those antibiotics.

  22. Re:Licensing Fees on Hulu For Sale: Is There Good News For Users? · · Score: 1

    Hulu doesn't run on AppleTV either.

  23. I hate the way this is worded. on Politics: Paul-Barney Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Federally · · Score: 1

    That is, "legalize marijuana". By default, everything is legal. Things are only illegal by statute or case law.

  24. Re:Pick me! on Google Eyeballing Games · · Score: 1

    Paul Graham, I believe, has advocated not hiring engineers/programmers but rather buying up start up companies that demonstrate interesting ideas and technical abilities. Google, Apple, and Microsoft all buy companies (or hire open source developers) for talent rather than products. Hell, a friend of mine got rejected in a google interview, started a hobby project, and was bought out by google 3 months later.

  25. Re:Mind blowing on Android App Quality Pathetically Low Says Developer · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he meant 1,000/number_of_android_sales > 4,000/number_of_iphone_sales, which only holds true if number_of_iphone_sales > number_of_android_sales * 4.